The Great Unwashed

or.. 'That's Just How It Is'.

Soooo... 7 days in ArtHome ARC and there has been much to do. Amira Hanafi, the resident artist, leaves tomorrow after her one week stay and she has been taking some amazing photographic documentation of the city via her walking project.

I have been mainly working on getting things for the flat, beautifying the space, starting new writing classes with a fresh intake of students, eating some delicious cake/biscuits and continuing with the existing class (shokran Hind for the laziz biscuits!!)and trying to sort out various plumbing issues (plumber on his way again as I type). It seems that the modus operandi in Cairo plumbing is to take several days fixing something, then go away and that thing breaks down again after 30 minutes. There are small horizons of hope that then plummet;forced to be The Great Unwashed; living up to stereotypes of the British.. though my teeth aren't black and cragged (yet). Anyway I am drinking lime so as to combat any dormant, ancestral scurvy.

The week ahead is busy, the city is awaiting and the heat is building...